I think we get into dangerous territory when we say "only people who can afford it can have kids/animals". My entire family would be eliminated if that were the case. Poor people have enough crap in their lives without being told that they are not entitled to having children or owning pets. Being poor doesn't mean you aren't able to take care of basic needs. Being poor does not make you bad or less of a person or less entitled to a "normal" life.
Pardon me if I don't want to live in a world where only middle class people (who are overwhelmingly white) are the ones with children.
I might add that my grandmother was so poor she had to bathe and wash her animals in the same river. This was the environment my mother grew up in. But my grandmother was a mountain woman and a healer. She and my grandfather were lucky to make any money...they lived completely off the land. They had many animals and none of them went without. They fed their kids and their animals as best they could. My grandmother, too poor to afford anything, would still open her heart to sick and stray animals...nursing them back to health and rehoming them. She did this in the middle of the depression with EIGHT children.
Poor people are human beings, too. Sorry, but I get really upset and hurt by this sort of thing.
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